transitive v. To inspect; to examine; to look over carefully or repeatedly.

transitive v. To look upon with an evil eye; to bewitch by looking upon; to fascinate.

transitive v. To look over and beyond (anything) without seeing it; to miss or omit in looking; to fail to notice; to fail to observe.

transitive v. To refrain from bestowing notice or attention upon; to disregard or deliberately ignore; to pass over without censure or punishment; to excuse or pardon (a fault, error, or misdeed).

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To look over; view from a higher place; see from a higher position.

To rise or be elevated above; rise so high as to afford the means of looking down on.

To view fully; look over; peruse; read.

To keep an eye on; inspect; superintend; oversee; care for or watch over.

To look beyond or by so as to fail to see, or so as to disregard or neglect; pay no attention to; disregard; hence, to pass over indulgently; excuse; forbear to punish or censure.

To bewitch by looking on; confound; unsettle.

A coined word used in the textile and other similar trades to describe a stitch made by a sewing-machine which, on the cut edge of a single thickness of material, or in joining the edges of two pieces of material, makes covering stitches which conceal the otherwise projecting thread-ends, and at the same time locks the stitches so as to give strength to the artificial selvage or seam thus made; also applied to the machine which makes this artificial selvage or over-seam.